Christopher Yang's Biography

Christopher C. Yang is an associate professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management and the director of the Digital Library Laboratory at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.   He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona. He has also been an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at the University of Hong Kong and a research scientist in the Department of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona.  His recent research interests include cross-lingual information retrieval and knowledge management, Web search and mining, security informatics, text summarization, multimedia retrieval, information visualization, digital library, and electronic commerce.  He has published over 150 referred journal and conference papers in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Decision Support Systems (DSS), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Computer, Information Processing and Management, Journal of Information Science, Graphical Models and Image Processing, Optical Engineering, Pattern Recognition, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Applied Artificial Intelligence, IWWWC, SIGIR, ICIS, CIKM, and more.  He has edited several special issues on multilingual information systems, knowledge management, and Web mining in JASIST and DSS.  He chaired and served in many international conferences and workshops.  He has also frequently served as an invited panelist in the NSF Review Panels in US.  He was the chairman of the Association for Computing Machinery Hong Kong Chapter.